Already, cracks are beginning to emerge within the party, with some members claiming Khalwale has the blessings of ODM bigwigs as he prepares to challenge Governor Wycliffe Oparanya, who is also deputy party leader.

As experts on the Indian Ocean island Reunion studied plane debris for clues in the search for missing flight MH370, scientist Nicolas Villeneuve was making his own discovery: the island's volcano was about to erupt.

If President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe were in the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday, he would probably have had one of the most unnerving moments in his political career.